Sounds like an inside job and the headphones are probably in a container going to Asia by now. Highly doubt that a well organised gang of thieves like this would try to sell the whole shipment over time on eBay and the like.

  That's how I feel about every Bethesda game by the 2nd playthrough. When it's fresh and new your head is spinning with possibilities of what's now possible that wasn't before, eager to see how the story is etc. And then you realise the stories haven't improved in years, the gameplay save a...

  Most likely get to markup the cables by a whole bunch more when selling them separate.

Ok I must've missed the reasoning but how on earth are these things considered portable? Unless we're counting everything smaller/lighter than the LCD series as portable now.

  No but I'm sure they'd be a lot easier for a thief to sell than anything by Audeze since the average guy has no clue about Audeze. Everyone knows Beats though.

Is it really that hard to spend $10-15 on a decent extension cord...I don't think so, especially since it solves the problem completely.

This is not an ad he says as he advertises... 

  If long distance means airplane, I hope for your sake you're planning on getting the closed back version. 

  I don't really see people walking around with an EL-8 plugged into an iPhone much, it's still a full size headphone and most people would consider it too bulky for any sort of portable use.

If the superdrive is new I'd return it or exchange for a new one. Alternatively you can try a non-apple external dvd drive or a different computer and see if that works?

  5 feet for an ethernet cable is what I would personally consider rather short as would a lot of other people.

  Same reason headphone manufacturers don't ship their headphones with $600 cables because both are dubious at best and there's no point wasting time and resources on the minority that care about either since they can just burn them in or change the cabling themselves.

Most streaming services are not all that high quality, as a matter of fact 128kbps files are not uncommon for them. Unless you're using Spotify premium which I believe is 320kbps or Tidal which is lossless there is not point in investing a lot into a setup since you're going to limited by the...

Telltale's Game of Thrones - 8/10, love their games, very good storytelling.   League of Legends - anywhere from a 1 to a 10 out of 10, depending on the day, toxicity of teammates and various other factors. The joys of MOBA games :(

OP did state around $50, the Fostex and DT880 are nowhere near that price.   Honestly considering they're for gaming and your nephew is only 11 I'd get him the HyperX Cloud gaming headset and call it a day, They're durable, provide very good audio for the price, have a mic if he wants to chat...

Everytime I see that wood veneer is makes me cringe still, wish they'd not gone with that. Maybe they'll at least offer an alternate look down the line if these do well.

I somehow highly doubt they're going to be LCD-X killers because it literally would make no business sense. I'm fully expecting something like LCD-X lite that will allow people with lower budgets to get hooked on Audeze.

It's a rather average story with a nearly endless amount of MMO style fetch quests that are nothing but padding, hardly what I count as content. It's like they set out to make an MMO but then just made it offline instead. Disappointment of the year for me. 

HyperX Cloud, they're shockingly good for the price and I need the mic for multiplayer.

Placebo is a hell of a drug.

You're kidding yourself if you think the price would've dropped without a public drama. Businesses of any kind aren't here to be nice to you, they're here to make money. In this case the public outcry and bad publicity would've cost them more than the drop in repair costs, simple as that. That...

Whoever just payed $800 for a driver replacement must be fuming right about now.

Changing cables is purely a cosmetic change unless the cable is being replaced due to it being defective. That being said you'll never convince the guy that just shelled out hundreds of dollars on a single cable that there's no difference which is precisely what keeps all the cable makers in...

This is just unacceptable, when you charge that much for a product you better make sure quality control is top notch AND back it with a damn good warranty. By the sounds of this Audeze is doing neither. I certainly don't expect headphones that cost $1k+ to die off in under a decade and I'm sure...

I think the average person doesn't really research what they purchase when it comes to headphones, they just get what seems trendy at the time and looks cool at the store. Beats and Skullcandy have always been rated as poor by most reviews, that hasn't stopped everyone on the street buying them...